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“If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the- World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH, the paint would’t even have time to dry.”
- Terry Pratchett
Except for the Doofenshmirtz “2 nickels” one, I see that everywhere.
A private key would be built in to the camera. It would be stored in a way that’s hard to get at, physically or in software (like the secure enclaves in phones).
The pics or videos are signed using the private key (again, this process needs to happen in a secure way without revealing the secret key).
The camera manufacturer publishes the matching public key. Anyone can use it to verify that the file matches the signature. But no one can sign a fake image unless they can get at the private key.
This would work even if the camera manufacturer no longer existed. The camera does need to ever be online.
The public/private key pairs are also part of what makes blockchains work, but for this process blockchains would add nothing.
Seriously. It’s something about shampoo, hair conditioner, laundry detergent and laundry conditioner especially. The product type is printed as small as the dosage on med bottles.
I have seen a gas pump have a “press cancel to skip PIN entry” message…
Edit: here it is https://imgur.com/bypass-pin-veorkyV
Usually they ask for the zip code of the billing address, and if you found a card, there’s a good chance you’d be in that zip code.
Technology Connections has covered how they work.
Have you seen the Thatcher Effect?
I had to verify my identity with a UK government app recently, and the app scanned my passport’s RFID!
They linked to the wrong version.
Where’d this come from?
West Virginia, mountain mama.
Fun tip: if you’ve sorted the details list by cpu and the keep dancing around, hold down Ctrl to stop them from getting away while you kill them.
181·3 months agoCartoon rabbits you day? The perfect family Easter movie.
16·3 months agoWhichever version it is, I hope that one day I can delete a mail, change my mind, press ctrl-z and it will actually undo the last delete and not some random one from earlier in the day.
6·4 months agoWhat about Iceland?
That was covered pretty well already!
Or maybe it’s using Fluidic logic.
Well that’s of the same order of magnitude as the quoted figure. I was suggesting that it sounded vastly larger than it should be.
It’s true, I don’t know how large the models are that are being accessed in data centers. Although if the article’s estimate is correct, it’s sad that such excessively-demanding models are always being used for use-cases that could often be handled with much lower power usage.
140Wh seems off.
It’s possible to run an LLM on a moderately-powered gaming PC (even a Steam Deck).
Those consume power in the range of a few hundred watts and they can generate replies in a seconds, or maybe a minute or so. Power use throttles down when not actually working.
That means a home pc could generate dozens of email-sized texts an hour using a few hundred watt-hours.
I think that the article is missing some factor, such as how many parallel users the racks they’re discussing can support.
Via Tom Scott’s newsletter, an explanation of a strange ngrams anomaly in an xkcd. Why is the 11th of all months apparently the least popular date?
https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/